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Changing the home drive

OK,I added a hard drive and upgraded to XP about two years ago. When I installed XP on the new HD it made f: the system drive. A. How do I change it back to be cB. How do I set all of my apps to look at cC. how do I change programs to believe they are on c: instead of F

I just want the system to be like any other normal system with C: as its main drive.

I believe you can do this through computer mgmt in administrative tools. *But, to make your apps look in the right place, I think you need to use something like Norton Partition Magic, that has drive mapper. Otherwise, you would have to go through the registry and change every reference from F: to C:

The old HD crashed eventually. Many applications assume C: as the primary and do not work correctly with the primary as f: short sited of them not to use the environment to set drive letters but thats how it goes.

Answer: You can follow the procedure defined in answer #1 for this. But...

B. How do I set all of my apps to look at cC. how do I change programs to believe they are on c: instead of F

Answer: Applications that were installed when the drive was labelled F: must be reinstalled to work on C:. Applications store drive letters and paths in their own ways. There is no simple method to change all of these paths except reinstallation.

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